Improvement in horseshoes



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UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIGE.

EDVARD SNEIDER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,495, dated October 2, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD SNEIDER, of the city and county of Baltimore,in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be. a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying; drawings, which are made part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a plan of my improved horseshoe. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section 011 the line x x.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in all the figures.

The subject of thisinvei'ition is a false or supplemental shoe, which is armed with calks or roughing devices, and is applied to the common fast shoe to enable the horse to travel upon the iceqwithout slipping.

The invention consists in the devices by which thc false shoe is clamped upon the fast shoe and in means for protecting' the operating parts from gravel, Sac.

The following description will enable others skilled in the art to which vthe invention appertains to fully understand and use the same.

ln the accompanying drawings, A repre sents the ordinary shoe, which is constructed and nailed to the hoof in customary manner.

B is the supplemental shoe, which is provided with the pointed calks or projections b, which, when the shoeis applied, prevent gthe horse from slipping. TheshoeB is formed with upwardly-projecting toepiecesB B', and behind the pieces B are two projecting guides, O (l, and a lug, D, which parts are disposed as shown in Fig. 1, and formed or cast in one piece with 4the base-plate B2 and shoe B.

rlhe guides O O are dovetailed to receive a sliding clamp, E, which is advanced by means of a squarelheaded screw-bolt, F, working in the lug D.

The method of clamping the supplemental shoe onto the fast shoe is clearly shown in the drawings. The shoe B is first placed against the shoe A, with the front part of the latter litt-in g between the toe projections B and the guides C C. The clamp E is then forced forward against the inner edge of the shoe A, the iiange e ofthe cla-mp slightlyv overlapping the top thereof, as shown.

extremities ofthe shoe B and project upward alongside of the inner edges of the shoe A.

The plate B2 completely covers the operating parts at the under side and prevents the .interference of gravel, &c.

G represents an annular washer applied to the end of the bolt F, behind the lug D, and retained in position by a pin, H, passing through the bolt and resting in a groove in the washer. The washer is split and has sufiicient spring or elasticity to press forcibly against the lug D and pin H, and thus be prevented from turning. Hence the washer, being made fast to the screw-bolt F and incapable of turning, prevents said bolt from working loose when the horse is in motion.

As the toe-pieces B are inclined to conform to the hoof against which they rest, the supplemental shoe B may be held on with sufficient security whether the iianged clamp E overlap the shoe A or be simply retained snugly in contact with vthe same.

Having thus described my invention, the

j following'is what I claim as'new herein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. A supplemental shoe, B, provided with the inclined toe-pieces B B', sliding clamp E, and screw-bolt F, whereby said supplemental shoe is to be clamped to the fast shoe, sub stantially as described.

2. The split spring-washer G, applied to thc bolt F to prevent the same from working loose, substantially as described.

3. The studs a a, formed on the rear extremities ofthe supplemental shoe B, and employed to prevent the lateral displacement of the same, substantiallyY as described.

4. The combination, with the supplemental shoe B, of the clamp E, guides G G, and protecting-plate B2, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

EDWARD SNEIDER.

Witnesses z C. SToLTzE, HENRY KEIDEL. 

